About 76 community housing units remain without power Friday — all townhouses, Mayor Rob Ford said. Power has been restored to the apartment buildings.

At the press conference, Kelly said he was concerned about how the ice storm would affect the city’s budget — the storm in the summer had already depleted a lot of Toronto’s emergency reserves.

He also said that recovery efforts are now slowing, with crews needing to go house to house. At the beginning of the effort, about 50,000 customers were being brought back online every day. Moving forward, that number could go down to 10,000 a day, Kelly said.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has been mostly in contact with the deputy mayor — rather than Mayor Ford — after Toronto’s city council voted to strip Ford of most of his powers and give them to Kelly.

If Toronto went into an official state of emergency, those emergency powers would also go to Kelly, who would assume the powers of city council.

However, Mayor Ford retains the authority to actually declare the state of emergency, and has so far said there is no need to, and that “all it would have done is panic people.”

Toronto Hydro CEO Anthony Haines echoed Ford’s sentiment Friday, saying that a state of emergency for the city would not have affected the power utility’s recovery efforts. Toronto Hydro, he said, has already been in a state of emergency since Saturday, and power would not be restored any sooner with a state of emergency for the city.